I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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